Dr. Katie Mckeogh

Biography

I am a religious cultural historian and book historian working on the project 'Dissemination, Ownership, Reading Music Early Modern Europe' as a postdoctoral research associate. I joined King's College London in 2023, having spent a decade at the University of Oxford as a graduate student and then as a Junior Research Fellow in History. My research interests encompass Reformation Europe, cultural history, printed books, manuscripts, antiquarianism, and Catholicism, primarily focusing on the cultural impact of religious change in Britain during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. I specifically study English Catholicism, examining the life of notable book collector and architectural patron Sir Thomas Tresham (c. 1543-1605) and the manuscript culture of the English Catholic gentry. My work includes investigations into music books, antiquarianism, and the culture of book ownership in Europe, particularly in England and France. I am currently working on a monograph project titled 'Catholic Book Culture in Early Modern England, 1560-1660.'

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